Amends the definition of "carbon dioxide equivalent" to provide that such term be calculated based on a 100-year time frame after emission; provides for rules and regulations to amend the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit; repeals provisions of law relating to statewide greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8607--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
December 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. WALCZYK, BORRELLO, CHAN, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA,
MURRAY, OBERACKER, ORTT, RHOADS, STEC, TEDISCO -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
calculation of statewide greenhouse gas emission limits; and to repeal
section 75-0109 of the environmental conservation law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 75-0109 of the environmental conservation law is
2 REPEALED.
3 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 75-0101 of the environmental conserva-
4 tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
5 read as follows:
6 2. "Carbon dioxide equivalent" means the amount of carbon dioxide by
7 mass that would produce the same global warming impact as a given mass
8 of another greenhouse gas over an integrated [twenty-year] one hundred-
9 year time frame after emission.
10 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 75-0107 of the environmental conserva-
11 tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
12 read as follows:
13 1. No later than one year after the effective date of this article,
14 the department shall, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated
15 after at least one public hearing, establish a statewide greenhouse gas
16 emissions limit as a percentage of 1990 emissions, as estimated pursuant
17 to section 75-0105 of this article[, as follows:
18 a. 2030: 60% of 1990 emissions.
19 b. 2050: 15% of 1990 emissions].
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
2 department of environmental conservation shall update the statewide
3 greenhouse gas emissions limit established pursuant to subdivision 1 of
4 section 75-0107 of the environmental conservation law, to maintain
5 consistency with the definition of the term carbon dioxide equivalent,
6 as defined by subdivision 2 of section 75-0101 of the environmental
7 conservation law, as amended by section two of this act.
8 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
